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Mossfield House

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Mossfield House
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Detached five-bay two-storey over basement with attic storey country house, built c.1760 and remodelled c.1840, with central pedimented breakfront, entrance porch, extension to rear and flanked by single-storey lean-to bays. Pitched slate roof with terracotta ridge tiles, rendered chimneystacks and some cast-iron rainwater goods. Decorative bargeboards to gables. Ruled and lined rendered walls with carved sandstone ogee cornice. Square-headed window openings to front elevation have flanking panelled pilasters supporting an entablature. Windows to ground floor with rosettes to entablature. Round-headed window opening flanked by narrow lights to entrance bay with round-headed window opening to attic storey above. Square-headed window openings to rear elevation with timber sash window and sandstone sills. Timber and glazed entrance porch with square-headed window opening within. Tooled limestone architrave surround and timber panelled and glazed double doors flanked by sidelights. Door accessed up eight limestone steps. Walled garden to south of house. Modern outbuildings to rear site. Square-profile stone entrance piers to road flanked by quadrant walls.

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